LightningPaul

Here is another piece of art of Beaufort 3 at the Belgian coast in the city Blankenberge. This house is transformed into something looking very old. All done by the artist is Robert Kusmirowski. Many local people are not so happy with this masterpiece called The Facade. Personally I think it's beautiful in its own way. Actually I love it.


TECH-INFO: the first day I came to spot the place and to look for the right light. I noticed that around eleven o'clock the light was striking the building well from the left side and hence making lots of texture visible. So the next day I came back around the same time with my tripod, camera and cable release. I took nine JPG shots with each a stop difference. At home I merged them into a HDR file (with DxO Optics Pro for lens corrections and Photoshop for merging). Then I tone mapped it in Photomatrix Pro and exported the result into Photoshop where I did further post processing. Mainly I straightened the falling lines (my camera was looking way up) and I used a bunch of masked adjustment layers to enhance many details of the house. You could say that this is my interpretation of The Facade.